In the spirit of Jayson Blair, I think I may just steal my weekly column this week from the Wall Street Journal. In Health Insurance on the Web (paid site only, sorry) they propose a free market solution to Health Care: it is called competition.
"New Jersey's regulators, for example, have the power to tell insurers what kind of policies they must offer, and its regulators can enforce those restrictions on companies from other states trying to sell policies to New Jersey residents. That's why you can buy a mortgage or an automobile on the Internet from anywhere in the country, but you still can't shop around for a family health policy."
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"Then there are 'guaranteed issue' rules that require insurers to accept everyone who applies, no matter how sick. This sounds great. But if people know they can get insured when they're sick, they're less inclined to buy insurance when they're healthy. This shrinks the overall insurance pool, raising prices again. States like New Hampshire and Kentucky repealed guaranteed issue after it nearly wrecked their insurance markets."